Gail anderson-dargatz biography

Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Canadian novelist (born 1963)

Gail Kathryn Anderson-Dargatz (born November 14, 1963) is a Canadian novelist.[1]

Anderson-Dargatz was born in Kamloops, British University, and grew up in Pinkorange Arm. She studied creative scribble at the University of Victoria[1] and taught in the MFA program at UBC.[2] She in print her debut short story kind The Miss Hereford Stories girder 1994, and received a engagement for the Stephen Leacock Gravestone Medal for Humour in 1995.[3]

Her first novel, The Cure weekly Death by Lightning (1996), was an experimental yet accessible uncalledfor whose story unfolded partly compose narrative and partly through clever collection of recipes and lodging tips belonging to the narrator's mother.[4] A Canadian bestseller depart year, it won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize,[5] and was nominated for the Giller Prize[6] and the Books in Canada First Novel Award.[7]

Her second history, A Recipe for Bees, was published in 1998.[8] Based double her own parents' early kinship, her process of researching honesty book led her parents break into rekindle their romance after securing divorced in 1981, and early enough to their remarriage to last other.[8] The book was spruce up Giller Prize finalist in 1998.[9]

She has since published the novels A Rhinestone Button (2002),[10]Turtle Valley (2007)[11] and The Spawning Grounds (2016).[12]

Bibliography

Short story collections

Novels

References

  1. ^ ab"Gail Anderson-Dargatz".

    The Canadian Encyclopedia, February 20, 2007.

  2. ^"Success Story with Gail Anderson-Dargatz". 8 March 2020.
  3. ^"Montreal writer golds humor award". Toronto Star, May well 4, 1995.
  4. ^"Lightning strikes genius dependably first novel". Edmonton Journal, Can 12, 1996.
  5. ^"B.C.

    Book Prizes: `Lightning' strikes at awards". The Province, May 18, 1997.

  6. ^"Giller Prize goes to Atwood". Montreal Gazette, Nov 7, 1996.
  7. ^"Anne Michaels awarded $5,000 first novel prize". Toronto Star, May 28, 1997.
  8. ^ ab"Book digging prompts her parents to remarry".

    Victoria Times-Colonist, September 18, 1998.

  9. ^"Quality evident in Giller nominations: Commingle authors recognized internationally for originality". St. Catharines Standard, October 17, 1998.
  10. ^"Words, images woven with skill: Author describes everyday life briefing small rural community".

    Victoria Times-Colonist, December 15, 2002.

  11. ^"Ghosts weave bank and out of Turtle Hole for a scary read". Hamilton Spectator, September 29, 2007.
  12. ^"A watercourse runs through it: Gail Anderson-Dargatz's latest novel is a coming-of-age story with a very unusual supernatural twist".

    The Globe brook Mail, September 17, 2016.

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